[WikiEN-l] Re: Images on user pages

Wed Sep 14 02:22:07 UTC 2005

Actually, add on to this another question: What about "limited licensed" 
images on user pages? For example, "A picture of me and my dog. For use on 
my user page on Wikipedia only." Obviously this wouldn't work on any article 
page, but do we care if such images are used on user pages? 

I'd tend to lead towards "no", simply because user pages must follow 
Wikipedia license guidelines, I'd assume. 

FF

On 9/13/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do we have an official policy on images on user pages? Correct me if I'm 
> wrong, but wouldn't the use of copyrighted materials there in a way which 
> did not qualify as "fair use" simply be copyright infringement, in the same 
> way it would in the article namespace? Does the law make the namespace 
> distinction? (That sounds like a silly question in a way, but I suppose I'm 
> referencing "safe harbor" laws.) 
> 
> In the end, I think this comes down to "should we allow copyright 
> violations on user pages?" which sounds to me like the answer would be "of 
> course not". 
> 
> Boy, wouldn't it be fun to start enforcing this! Anybody in the mood to 
> become "most hated user, especially among the young and brittle"? If the 
> answer is definitely "no exceptions", it would be nice to have a quote from 
> Jimbo Wales with his thoughts on this to use as a reference, since a lot of 
> people have strong proprietary feelings about their user pages.
> 
> FF
>